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Saturday, November 19, 2011

So last week I was over at Sugar Bee Crafts with a tutorial, so in case you missed it, here it is!

Hi! I am Mandy and I am from over at mndy.made! I recently started blogging a few months ago and I LOVE it! I love to create things and I enjoy sharing with my readers. In my blog you will find tutorials, pictures and some freebies! I love my family and they keep me SUPER busy, but I always seem to find time to create new things! Thanks so much to Mandy here at Sugar Bee Crafts for letting me be a guest on her wonderful blog! Sugar Bee Crafts was one of the first Blogs I started following and I feel honored to be here! So I hope you enjoy my tutorial!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Wow, the holidays are HERE! A week from today is Thanksgiving, that's crazy! I'm so not prepared. I believe the holidays are a procrastinator's worst nightmare (at least they are mine). I haven't even started Christmas shopping yet :(

I know, I know, I need to get on that.

But for now I have a project for you!

How about some Christmas placemats?! They can help add some Christmas cheer to your table!

What you will need:

Muslin

Felt

Red, Yellow and Green Fabric

Heat N Bond

Bias Tape

I ironed the heat n bond to the fabric before I cut it

*I used my Go! Baby to cut the Christmas Trees, and my Silhouette for the stars*

I then cut squares from the HoHoHo fabric for the background on the tree (this was a last minute decision so I don't have pictures.

I then cut 8 pieces of 11 x 17 pieces of the muslin (you 2 pieces per placemat, one for the top and one for the bottom)

And cut 4 pieces of 11 x 17 pieces of the felt.

Iron the trees and the stars onto the background pieces

Then sew them down to the background piece

Next sew the piece to the corner of one piece of muslin

Sandwich the piece of felt in between a piece of muslin and the piece of muslin with the tree on it and pin the bias tape around the entire placemat

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

My daughter REFUSES to wear anything in her hair. I can sneak a little tiny rubber band in there to make a ponytail, but that's it! So I had to come up with a solution to this, because those little rubber bands were not cute enough! So I made some teeny, tiny scrunchies!

What you will need is:

1/4 in. elastic

Fabric

Safety pin

I cut my fabric into strips, (depending on what size you want them will depend on how big your strip is)mine are 1.5 x 4in.

Fold them long ways right sides together, and sew up the long side, leaving both sides open

Now take a safety pin and attach it to one side and pull it through the tube to make it right side out.

Cut your elastic into 3in. strips

Attach the safety pin to the elastic and pull it through the tube. I safety pinned the two ends together until I sewed it so it would stay

Now sew the elastic together

Next tuck one end under like the above picture and then tuck the other end inside it and hand stitch it together.